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Former_Bubblehead Things in the Linux world are rapidly approaching the same point OS/2 reached where Windows apps ran without problems and developers all concluded that native app development was no longer needed. Reply
LordVile Former_Bubblehead said: Things in the Linux world are rapidly approaching the same point OS/2 reached where Windows apps ran without problems and developers all concluded that native app development was no longer needed. Not really, you have to build this yourself, I severely doubt the “butter smooth” claim and one update could brick the whole thing. Reply
erazog Former_Bubblehead said: Things in the Linux world are rapidly approaching the same point OS/2 reached where Windows apps ran without problems and developers all concluded that native app development was no longer needed. Being able to run desktop Windows software is a huge benefit, the world will never move away from the defacto standard that is Win32 API. The likes of Adobe will never make a native linux version no matter what and Linux needs professional productivity software to be taken more seriously in the corporate environment. It doesn't change native linux software development which is own separate modular thing and has no equivalent to Win32. Reply
timsSOFTWARE erazog said: Being able to run desktop Windows software is a huge benefit, the world will never move away from the defacto standard that is Win32 API. The likes of Adobe will never make a native linux version no matter what and Linux needs professional productivity software to be taken more seriously in the corporate environment. It doesn't change native linux software development which is own separate modular thing and has no equivalent to Win32. I wouldn't say "never" – I think currently, most of their addressable market is using Windows or Mac, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to expend the development effort/cost on a Linux version. But I also think it's been a long time since the future of computing has been in flux as much as it is today. If Linux is a much better platform for AI, and say, integrated Nvidia desktops of the future designed to run local AI-powered applications are a better fit for Linux, then it could start gaining marketshare. Adobe is not going to just let themselves lose a substantial amount of customers to alternative software because they refused to support an operating system that everyone is running. But, while Linux has made significant improvements on the desktop, the non-commercial nature of it still seems to be holding back the UX. Devs tend to work on things they need – and the devs know how to use the commandline, recompile apps and drivers, etc. So the depth of configuration exposed in the GUI is paper-thin. A lot of computer users don't want to have to learn how to, say – to use a recent real-world example I encountered – modify code and recompile the input subsystem used by their Linux variant's windowing system, to fix the touchpad scrolling speed being too fast (Ubuntu doesn't offer the option to set scroll speed in the GUI, so that's the only way to fix it). So I don't know what the answer is there – the big benefit of Linux is that it's open-source and free, but that also means there is no incentive for devs to work on features they're not going to use, test with hardware they don't own, etc. Reply
ezst036 Creative Cloud? Doesn't that imply other Adobe software as well, not just Photoshop? What about DreamWeaver? What about Illustrator and InDesign? How about something perhaps more simple, like Adobe Acrobat? Reply
mitch074 ezst036 said: Creative Cloud? Doesn't that imply other Adobe software as well, not just Photoshop? What about DreamWeaver? What about Illustrator and InDesign? How about something perhaps more simple, like Adobe Acrobat? Because Creative Cloud MUST run for other (not cracked) Adobe software to run. Making it run then allows proper compatibility to be explored for the other software. I would not be surprised if Photoshop worked properly right away then : outside of CPU, RAM and storage, it doesn't ask for much, and considering that it defaults to software rendering, as long as you don't tinker with the settings it should run properly. Premiere is another kettle of fish though, as software rendering for movies is NOT ideal. Acrobat could be troublesome due to strict font rendering, but AFAIK most were solved years ago. Maybe on some exotic font using hardly used kerning features… To my knowledge, Wine uses a patched version of Mozilla's Gecko engine to emulate IE's HTML thingie. That's OK for help files, but if Adobe's CC relies on IE9's half-arsed event model to run, chances are it would not work, indeed. Reply
yearswithgpu Adobe is evil, there is good reason people switched to DaVinci Resolve/Affinity. 10 process at background just to log in to Cloud software. Reply
ezst036 mitch074 said: To my knowledge, Wine uses a patched version of Mozilla's Gecko engine to emulate IE's HTML thingie. That's OK for help files, but if Adobe's CC relies on IE9's half-arsed event model to run, chances are it would not work, indeed. I did not know IE9 was in Windows 11? Is the event model still around without the core of IE? Reply
mitch074 ezst036 said: I did not know IE9 was in Windows 11? Is the event model still around without the core of IE? The interface isn't. However, the mshtml.dll that contains the IE5.5/7/8/9/10/11 HTML engine, and thus the DOM engine and parts of the JS engine is still used by internal MS stuff and, yes, still present. Reply
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